It's time to begin.....

Kakiste

Cleared my sewing backlog. Ordered enough material from a friend's sewing shop to make another 4 things. Posted to my immediate friendship group and had two orders so made £60 from those, material will cost £45 so made £15 outright profit today and the further two orders will cost £0 in materials so that will be £60 clear profit to go into EF. The fabric will probably take until next Friday to arrive so I'm going to use all the offcuts of material from the last lot of cuisses to make smaller items which I can usually shift for £20 each whilst I'm waiting for the new stuff to arrive. 

missymoo81

That’s great you’re able to use the off it’s, such a great way to make some extra money! 

Kakiste

Made £6 on prolific today and got the first order mostly finished- about an hour of handsewing to finish it. 
I've started cutting out the other orders from the offcut and it looks as though I have enough to make 5-6 of them which should make me a good £100 easily. Just need to crack on before the end of this week.

Kakiste

Spent £7 today. One of the lovely TAs at work is an ex student from a couple of years ago) who was hired by the head as a 'local boy makes good' style thing. Anyhow, he's moving into his first flat this week and as a care leaver he gets the first 6 months of rent covered for him but then he's on his own and because the rent support is a lot of money that's the extent of the help he's getting so everyone at work is donating/buying him stuff to kit out his flat. I've bought him some tea towels and some mugs and we're giving him our spare TV. (in the back room but not really used)
I remember when I moved into my first house after uni- ended up with a houseful of donated stuff from friends of parents/older colleagues so it's nice to do it for someone else. 

missymoo81

Ah what a lovely thing to do! So kind! I remember my first house was a mismatch of Second hand furniture!

Mumoffourkids

Fab news on the sewing and also on the prolific cash out. Also what a great idea for the TA. I still have some of the plates I got when I moved out of home over 20 years ago.

Kakiste

! Swinging by shop on way home for parsnips as they were the only thing I couldn't get as my weekend shop. 
Pork chop and parsnip traybake for dinner tonight (it's a recipe I got from BBC good food and I've really tasty.) https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pork-parsnip-traybake I thoroughly recommend it!

Kakiste

I'm making a conscious effort to enjoy this week as much as possible. Found out today that my most difficult student is returning next Monday and he's a complete nightmare behaviour wise. (worth noting for context that I love teaching in a school filled with kids expelled from mainstream for their terrible behaviour) 
So it's going to be a long 5 week slog to the summer. I'm determined to really enjoy this last 'quiet' week before the madness. 
I made crispy chicken wraps for tea tonight, with salad and south carolina mustard sauce (Aldi own brand- very tasty) Nom

Kakiste

So husband has developed Covid symptoms today (he think it may be because he went to A&E midweek last week after a workshop accident) He text me at break time and my SLT sent me straight home with instructions only to come back once he's had a negative test. So husband has been to a drive in test centre. I'm watching the Good Dinosaur with sprog instead of teaching year 9
I hope his test comes back clear as other than obviously not wanting him to be ill- I want to be at work  when the difficult student comes back Monday- to support my staff, support my form and I've got an audit to prep for Ofsted on Tuesday with the woman in charge of curriculum, teaching and learning for the wider company and I could really use Monday lunch and after School in my classroom to prepare.
However - until we're given the all clear, I obviously can't go to the shops and tomorrow was when I was going shopping, so inventive cupboard cooking it is! 

missymoo81

Ah Kakiste! What a nightmare for you! Fingers crossed it comes back negative! That’s all you need with so much going on! Wow you have an amazing job! Just take each day as it comes at the Moment and try not to stress. I hope you manage to come up with some meals. Tesco’s generally has some delivery slots available for next week still I think, If you get stuck.